Jaylin Sellers scored 20 of his game-high 27 points in the second half and Jason Edwards added 18 points as the Providence Friars won their third straight game and swept the season series over the Creighton Bluejays with an 85-82 victory on Saturday afternoon in Omaha, Neb.

Ryan Mela had 11 points and six rebounds for Providence (14-15, 7-11 Big East Conference), which has won five of seven. Jamier Jones scored nine points, and Oswin Erhunmwunse just missed his sixth double-double of the season with eight points and 11 rebounds.

Josh Dix and Austin Swartz each scored 18 points to lead Creighton (14-16, 8-11), which lost for the eighth time in 10 games. The Bluejays have now dropped three in a row. Dix went 4 from 8 from beyond the arc to lead the team, and Swartz had seven rebounds.

Jasen Green had 12 points, eight assists, and seven rebounds, while Nik Graves, who shot just 1 for 12 from the field, went 8 for 10 from the foul line and contributed 10 points and six assists for Creighton.

Sellers, who was 0 for 7 from the field and scored a season-low four points in last month’s 93-88 victory over the Bluejays in Providence, shot 61.1% (11 for 18) from the field, including 62.5% (5 for 8) from beyond the arc this time around for the Friars.

Edwards, who’s second on the team and just behind Sellers in scoring with 17.6 points per game, missed last month’s Creighton contest. He scored 10 points in the first half and added another eight after the break in a balanced performance.

Providence controlled the majority of the first half, holding the lead for all but roughly two minutes. The Friars led by as much as eight points in the opening frame before Creighton started chipping away.

Back-to-back 3-pointers by Hudson Greer and Dix evened the game at 28. Edwards’ driving layup, with 13 seconds remaining in the half, gave Providence a two-point advantage at the break.

A Mela floater with 1:11 left in the game gave Providence a 77-71 advantage. Dix made two free throws, and Swartz converted an and-1 to get the Bluejays within one, but Sellers provided the final margin with a driving layup with 15 seconds to play.

Swartz missed a three-point attempt to tie the game as time expired, giving Creighton two losses by a total of four points in four days.

Fedor Zugic, who averaged 12 points in three games since being inserted into the lineup, was held scoreless for the Bluejays.

–Field Level Media

Myles Colvin scored 32 points behind a blistering shooting effort as Wake Forest topped Syracuse 88-83 on Saturday in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Colvin had shot a combined 1 of 16 from the field — including 1 of 9 from long range — over the last two games, both losses. But he was on fire from the start in this one, making his first seven 3-pointers and finishing 9-of-12 from the field, 7-of-8 from 3-point range and 7-of-7 from the free-throw line.

Tre’Von Spillers contributed 16 points for Wake Forest (15-14, 6-10 Atlantic Coast Conference), while Juke Harris notched 13 points.

Donnie Freeman scored a career-high 28 points on 9-of-13 shooting for Syracuse (15-14, 6-10), which shot well from the field (51.9%), the 3-point arc (13 of 26) and the free-throw line (14 of 17) but still lost its third straight game.

Nate Kingz chipped in with 20 points for the Orange, while Naithan George had 13 points and 10 assists.

Wake Forest trailed by four points at halftime and faced the same deficit early in the second half when Kingz knocked down a 3-pointer to put Syracuse ahead 56-49.

The Orange led 62-58 with 11:33 left when Colvin and Harris made 3-pointers on consecutive possessions to tilt the scoreboard in favor of the Demon Deacons. Those outside shots sparked a 14-3 run which put Wake Forest ahead 72-65 with 7:37 left.

Spillers’ layup with 3:07 to play gave the Demon Deacons their largest lead, 82-72, marking the first and only time either team had a double-digit lead.

Syracuse quickly erased half that deficit, closing to within 82-77 on Freeman’s three-point play. Freeman’s drive to the rim with 1:07 left brought the Orange within 84-80. However, Cooper Schweiger grabbed an offensive rebound on Wake Forest’s next possession, scoring a putback layup to halt the visitors’ momentum.

With the game tied at 29-29, Syracuse scored eight straight points – the final five by George – and went on to lead 46-42 at intermission.

Freeman (15 points) and Kingz (14) combined for seven 3-pointers in the first half. As a team, the Orange were 10-of-18 from long distance (55.6%) in the first 20 minutes.

Colvin paced the Demon Deacons with 19 first-half points. He was 4-of-4 from outside the arc in the opening session.

–Field Level Media

Nijel Pack scored 21 points, Xzayvier Brown had 20 and Oklahoma pulled away from LSU 83-67 on Saturday in Baton Rouge, La.

Dayton Forsythe scored 13 points and Mohamed Wague added 10 for the Sooners (15-14, 5-11 Southeastern Conference), who won for the fourth time in six games since a nine-game losing streak.

Max Mackinnon scored 17 points, PJ Carter had 12, Michael Nwoko added 11 and Pablo Tamba had 10 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Tigers (15-14, 3-13), who lost for the sixth time in seven games.

Mackinnon made a layup to start the second-half scoring and pull LSU within six points, but Oklahoma pushed the lead to nine three times. Tamba’s two free throws trimmed the lead to 51-46 with 14:13 left in the second half.

The margin stayed between five and nine points throughout the first 10-plus minutes of the half until Pack made a 3-pointer that gave the Sooners a 64-52 lead. Brown scored the next five points and Tae Davis added a dunk to produce a 17-point advantage, 71-52, with 7:48 remaining.

Mackinnon made two free throws to end Oklahoma’s 12-0 run, but Pack answered with a jumper. Carter’s 3-pointer ended a 3 1/2-minute field-goal drought for the Tigers, but the Sooners expanded the lead to 79-57 with 5:54 remaining.

Carter had back-to-back 3-pointers to complete and 8-0 run that pulled LSU within 14, but Davis made two free throws and Brown added a layup to push the lead to 18 with 3:31 left.

LSU scored the first five points of the game, but Oklahoma scored the next 10, five of which came from Brown. Jalen Reece made a 3-pointer to stop the run before five different Sooners scored to extend the lead to 20-11.

Carter answered with a 3-pointer and Nwoko added a jumper, but Oklahoma pushed the lead to eight points on two occasions. The Tigers closed within 28-25 on Tamba’s three-point play, then Oklahoma increased the lead to 38-29 on a jumper by Kirill Elatontsev.

LSU crept within five, but Pack’s 3-pointer with 3 seconds to go gave the Sooners a 41-33 halftime lead.

–Field Level Media